Bill Nye The Science Guy Series | ||||||||||||
 Bill Nye knows how to provide easy access to hard science. What's his secret? A fast-paced approach blending humorous hijinks and hands-on activities with real-life situations, with a focus on illustrating and reinforcing key concepts in a really enjoyable and totally non-boring way! Bill encourages young students to ask interesting questions... then shows them how to discover fascinating answers. | ||||||||||||
| Forests | ||||||||||||
| 'Wood' you like to learn more about forests? Then watch this 'tree-mendous' programme brought to you by Bill Nye the Science Guy Forests have trees, and lots of them. But there's more to forests than meets the eye. Forests keep land warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. They stop land from eroding. Forests also make lots of oxygen for us to breathe. Venture deeper into a forest, and you'll see that it's home sweet home for a lot of different plants and animals. Forests are kind of like apartment buildings - there are different levels. The top level of a forest is called the 'canopy'. The canopy gets the most sunlight, so animals like birds, squirrels, owls, and insects hang around up there. The next level down is the 'understory', between the tops of the trees and the ground. Bushes, short trees, birds, deer, and bears are in this part of the forest. Next stop is the 'floor', which is covered with ferns, moss, flowers, roots, and soil. Remember that forests aren't all pine trees and brown bears! There are many different kinds of forests, such as tropical forests, rain forests, and deciduous (pron. 'deh-SID-joo-us') forests. Each type of forest is home to different species of plants and animals. Follow Bill out on a limb when he goes swinging through the trees to bring viewers close to the tallest and possibly oldest living things in the world, examine a real forest fire to see what it does to help a forest's ecosystem, and ecologist Nalini Nadkarni climbs to the forest canopy to study what's going on up there | ||||||||||||
| Running Time: 26 mins | ||||||||||||
| Age Range: 9 - 13 Years | ||||||||||||
| Year of Production: 1996 | ||||||||||||
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